Governor Newsom released his 2026-2027 budget proposal Friday morning. The budget shows revenues of $248.3 billion. But not everyone agrees on this projection, especially when it comes to AI’s actions. The Office of the Legislative Analyst, a nonpartisan legislative advisory group, in its November fiscal outlook projected revenues that were about $36 billion below the…
The agentic AI market is expected to grow nearly 10-fold by 2030. The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to continue in 2026, as more companies move from experimentation to deployment. One big opportunity is the growth of agentic AI, where AI models can respond to a single request from a user and perform…
In other news justifying neurosymbolic AI and global models, after Strong statements from Demis Hassabis yesterdayYann LeCun, historically hostile to symbolic approaches, has just joined what looks like a neurosymbolic AI company focused on reasoning and models of the world, apparently built on roughly the same type of plan as presented in 2020. Here’s the…
Davide Crapis from the Ethereum Foundation explains what ERC-8004 is and how it works. Published February 7, 2026 at 9:37 PM EST. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Addicted to podcasts, Pocket castings, Amazon Musicor on your favorite podcast platform. The ERC-8004 standard for trustless interactions with AI agents is finally…
A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…
In 2025, 63.8% of young people aged 16-24 in the EU were using generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. This share is almost twice as high as the share of the general population having used these tools (32.7% of 16-74 year olds). Young people are introducing the use of generative AI in different areas of life….
As state and local governments across the United States seek to operationalize artificial intelligence in their daily operations, a major technology provider working with these jurisdictions has released six new AI tools. The new feature comes from CivicPluswho is perhaps best known for creating municipal websites. However, the company offers many other government technology products…
The California Attorney General on Wednesday announced an investigation into non-consensual sexually explicit material produced using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. The investigation into the Elon Musk-owned company comes amid a broader global backlash against deepfake images that spread on X. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office cited reports that users asked Grok…
AI may be able to help complete certain types of jobs, like coding, more quickly. But this may come at the cost of improving what you do and mastering new skills in the process, new search watch. The AI company Anthropic, which develops the competitor ChatGPT Claude, conducted the study out of 52 junior software…
Home Daily News To what extent do legal leaders trust the artificial… Internal advisor How much do legal leaders trust artificial intelligence to make high-stakes decisions? New study sheds light By Amanda Robert January 20, 2026, 11:30 a.m. CST According to a new study of 500 legal and business executives, only 37% of legal executives…